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Best practices for cartel enforcement compliance

The legal and compliance community finally has an inkling of what to expect of antitrust enforcement under the new administration, following the nomination and expected confirmation of White House Deputy Counsel Makan Delrahim as the new head of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division.

President Trump picked Delrahim as assistant attorney general of the Antitrust Division in March, and the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 8 approved his nomination by a vote of 19-1. If confirmed, Delrahim would bring to the Antitrust Division experience in government, private practice, and politics.

Prior to his current role as deputy counsel to the President, Delrahim was a partner at law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, where he practiced antitrust and intellectual property law, and he was deputy assistant attorney general for the Antitrust Division prior to that.